Word: biggest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there was any small, sour group of delegates who disliked Moscow's biggest party, awful warning not to spoil it had been given them, and by Joseph Stalin. In a speech the chief parts of which did not come through the censorship but whose text was printed and reprinted in Soviet papers, the Dictator said of the men and women up for election to Russia's new Parliament: "I cannot say with assurance that their ranks are free ... of such men whom the Russian proverb describes as 'neither God's candle, nor Devil's broom...
...lessons at $1.85 in group lots, or $5 to the individual. The institute's unique sales technique is to persuade corporation managements that their employes would serve them better if they talked better. So strong a spur is company endorsement that sometimes the institute sells every single employe. Biggest customers: employes of Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. (11,067 courses), J. C. Penney Co., Inc. (11,000), Sears, Roebuck and Co. (10,750). All told the institute has sold 650,000 courses in hundreds of corporations...
...fresh collection of Carroll's diaphanous, warm, pink nudes, glinting pickaninny-like Negresses, superbly deft drawings. Done with less delicacy and more fire than usual were Blacksmith, a composition reminiscent of Franklin Watkins, and Deep Down Blue, a black girl rolling her eyeballs in a voodoo dance. Biggest & best designed picture: Summer Afternoon (see cut), a wispy girl putting up her hair while her contented swain stretches his toes...
Last week, when the February issue appeared, announcing Reuel Durkee Harmon as its new publisher, the Farmer's Wife had earned clear title to fame as one of the country's biggest little-known publications, the only women's magazine written exclusively for farm readers, with a 1,150,000 circulation concentrated in the Midwest and Great Lakes area, an annual revenue of $1,200,000. The late Mr. Webb had long since (1915) passed Webb Publishing Company to Mr. Klein and Albert H. Harmon. The new publisher is Mr. Harmon's only...
...vituperative cross-questioning, the unemployment investigation promised to remain on the front page. For Jimmy Byrnes & Co. last week sat back under the cut-glass chandeliers of the Senate caucus room to listen not to fusty professors or census takers but to the opinions of some of the biggest shots in U. S. industry on a subject which every small businessman loves to discuss...